1504, 2011

DeepSec 2011 – Call for Papers opened!

René Pfeiffer/ April 15, 2011/ Administrivia, Conference

For the fifth time the DeepSec In-Depth Security Conference invites security researchers and professionals to submit suggestions for talks and workshops for our conference which will take place in November 2011 in Vienna. Please visit our updated website for more details about the venue, the schedule and information about our past conferences. We’re currently migrating the old content and collect the data from the old server in order to present archives of the past conference web sites. The DeepSec offers a mix of different topics and aspects like current threats and vulnerabilities, social engineering and psychological aspects as well as security management and philosophy. Our speakers and trainers traditionally come from the security community, companies, hacker spaces and academic organisations. We’ve updated the CfP, and you can submit content for three categories: Talks for

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0504, 2011

BSidesVienna: Call For Papers

René Pfeiffer/ April 5, 2011/ Administrivia, Conference

In the wake of the 23rd annual FIRST conference there will be a B-Sides Vienna event together with the NinjaCon 11, 3rd edition. The B-Sides Vienna will be on June 18th, as will be the NinjaCon 11. The Call For Papers is now open and we ask you to submit your material! At B-Sides Vienna aka NinjaCon 11, we’re looking forward to see a selection of trainings, hands-on workshops, 50-minute presetations and 15-minute lightning talks. As we understand ourselves as an open, international event, the official conference language for all talks, trainings and workshops (as well as submitted abstracts), as always, is English. Topics of interest include (but are in no way limited to) the following: Information technology, network security, web application security, virtualisation and cloud computing, innovative attack strategies, forensics, embedded devices, physical

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1403, 2011

DeepSec 2011 – Call for Papers out soon

René Pfeiffer/ March 14, 2011/ Administrivia, Conference

We’re currently working on the Call for Papers for DeepSec 2011. The conference will take places from 15 to 18 November 2011, so you might want to save this date and mark it in your calendar. Mobile gadgets, the wonderful world of app stores filled with mal- and software, infrastructure and information war(rez)fare are top on the list of Things To Watch Out For™. We will sum up what we’re after in the CfP published on our new web site.

1501, 2011

FIRST Conference in Vienna

René Pfeiffer/ January 15, 2011/ Conference

2011 is already in full swing. That’s why we have an announcement for you. The 23rd annual FIRST Conference will take place in Vienna, Austria. We strongly recommend to participate. IT security never sleeps, and neither should you – at least when it comes to getting new ideas and get into touch with others. We will be there, so it would be great to meet you. Make sure you drop us a line, so we know you are around. If you have material for a lightning talk, there’s still time to get a slot. You just have to contact the conference office by e-mail. The address can be found on the conference program web site.

2712, 2010

27C3 and Misunderstandings about Security

René Pfeiffer/ December 27, 2010/ Conference, Security

We’ve hooked a computer to the video stream of the 27C3 conference. Currently we’re listening to the keynote speech which touches a relevant topic for security issue. Are you happy or are you unhappy? It sounds a bit strange, but usually happy people have nothing to worry about. So in turn it does make sense not to worry people. The examples given in the keynote were electronic voting machines. The process of selecting a government by anonymous voting is a cornerstone of democracies. This is exactly why electronic voting must not happen through black boxes. India has already threatened (and arrested) security researchers who analyse the security of the voting machines used in the country. Electronic voting is only one example. Another one is the publication about the broken chip and PIN design of

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2611, 2010

DeepSec Photographs – have a look!

René Pfeiffer/ November 26, 2010/ Conference

There are some people running around with digital cameras here at the conference. Check out these impressions: Tienod’s preview Sven’s pictures ChrisJohnRiley @ Flickr If you have some photographs online, drop us a note. All your images are belong to us.